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About East Parker County, TX

The Annetta Community was established by A.B. Fraser around 1880, when the Texas & Pacific Railroad was built through Parker County from Fort Worth. Mr. Fraser was originally from Nova Scotia, but immigrated to Louisiana and became an ardent Southerner.In 1876, he moved to Parker County, several miles east of Weatherford, where he built a station and a store for the convenience of the freighters which came eastward with ox-trains. These freighters would carry buffalo hides east, and then return westward with various kinds of merchandise for Weatherford and beyond. Mr. Fraser called the station "Anneta", after his daughter ...